Quotes: virtue
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Lyman Abbott
American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author.
1835-1922
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1835-1910
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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